This quote from the home page of the Grim Reaper Commemorative Crew site pretty much says it all.
Throughout the ages the Grim Reaper has been known as the one who collects your immortal soul and takes you on your final journey from this existence.
Being a Participant in the Grim Reaper Commemorative Crew is a way of memorializing one’s lost friends and the ideals we shared with them. It’s making a statement that we are the ones that will carry on those ideals.
Webster’s New World Dictionary: Participant; A person who shares in something.
You don’t join the GRCC, you participate and share with others, the pride associated with expressing our feelings of the loss of persons that had the same ideals as us but have taken their final journey.
The GRCC is an expression of beliefs that those that have passed before us will be memorialized forever.
The GRCC is not affiliated with any clubs, societies or associations. It is a group of individuals sharing in a common cause.
I really have nothing more to add except this.
I have two names, one of a friend, one of a love on the memorial page.
When I look at the patch, certificate, or site, I know I will always remember them, and I relive a memory or two.
